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From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
To: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
Cc: Philippe Coulonges <cphil@cphil.net>, <patents@aful.org>
Subject: Re: [Patents] android patent
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 19:15:36 +0100 (CET)

> BTW is this an accepted patent or a submitted one ?

If I understand correctly, the patent was filed in 1997 and granted on
2002-01-22.

According to

        http://www.uspto.gov/patft/helpfaq.htm

only granted patents are in the database anyway.

The patent description is extremely long and does indeed contain passages
about androids as well as about buddhist wisdom.  It must be extremely
difficult for an examiner to prove that this is not an enabling
disclosure.  It is not as simple as saying that perpetuum mobiles can't be
patented.

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Hartmut Pilch                                          http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation       http://swpat.ffii.org/
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android patent, PILCH Hartmut
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